1980, ISBN: 9781153673211

Hardcover

Zaragoza, 1980. 104 x 82 cms. Ejemplar coloreado a mano, a la aguada. Impresión sobre papel fuerte superior., Hardcover. New. This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. This Book Is In… More...

Zaragoza, 1980. 104 x 82 cms. Ejemplar coloreado a mano, a la aguada. Impresión sobre papel fuerte superior., Hardcover. New. This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. This Book Is In French. This item ships from La Vergne,TN., Hardcover. New. This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. This Book Is In French. This item ships from La Vergne,TN., hardcover. 12mo. brown calf, gilt-ruled raised bands and dec. compartments and blind-stamped title on spine, a.e.red, pp. 489 + (25 - index), b/w protrait frontispiece. Front joint and internally cracked but sound enough; spine rubbed and finely vertically cracked; spine tips and corners worn with thin strips of loss at spine tips; spine and bds. lightly stained. Pages faintly browned with sporadic light staining in margins; edges of e.ps. browned, personal armorial bookplate on front p.dn., small abrased area lower f.e.p., short cl. tear one fore-edge, small section of loss to edge of text one page; light crease across some corners; very sl. worm damage to upper edges. Actually a very good clean copy, Jean Anisson, Paris, 1697. Text in French. " All books are hardback unless stated otherwise. We are professional bookdealers with a long-established business. We are very careful with our descriptions so that our customers can avoid disappointments. When present, dustwrappers are always described, and protected with a clear non-adhesive cover. We enjoy personal friendly contact with our customers: click on "Ask Bookseller a Question" to talk to us., Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: . . . and which dated, therefore, from the severe winter of 1709! An inscription written upon the trunk of a tree, and which penetrates to the alburnum, is covered over by new woody layers, and may be found entire as long as that part of the trunk remains so. It was thus that Reisel found, in 1675, some capital letters in the middle of a beech: that Mayer, in 1680, found in the woody body of a beech, a kind of sculpture, representing a gallows and a person hanging: that Albrechti, in 1697, found in the same tree the letter H, surmounted by a cross: that Adami found, under nineteen layers of the alburnum, the letters J. C. H. M. It is thus that in certain trees in India, there have been found inscriptions in the Portuguese language, which had been written there some centuries before, when the country was discovered by those navigators. It is thus that different spots or regular stars have been artificially formed in the middle of several trees. Two Memoires by Fougeroux de Bondaroy, inserted among those of the Academie de Paris, for 1777, may be particularly consulted on this subject. When any accidental cause, as the hand of man, the teeth of animals, or simply a morbid change, hollows out a cavity in the alburnum, the orifice of which is sufficiently narrow to be covered over by the subsequent woody layers, the cavity is preserved entire, as well as any objects shut up in it. M. Candolle saw, for example, in the middle of a large piece of oak, which appeared perfectly sound, a cavity filled with nuts and acorns, which had probably beon carried there by dormice or squirrels, before it was covered over by now woody layers. In the same manner, bones, stones, and c, are fonnd in similar cavities. When a nail is driven into a tree so as to reach the alburnum, it remain. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<